Sukkwan Island Free Novella with Bonus Material

by David Vann

Overview

Harper is proud to offer this free e-book edition of Sukkwan Island, winner of France's prestigious 2010 Prix Medicis Award for best foreign novel.This multiple award-winning novella was published in the United States as part of David Vann's highly acclaimed Legend of a Suicide, a semiautobiographical collection of stories set largely in the author's native Alaska. Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father's suicide.

This special e-book edition also includes an excerpt from David Vann's debut novel, the breathtaking Caribou Island.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062080776
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/04/2011
Series:	Promo e-Books
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Published in twenty languages, David Vann's internationally bestselling books have won fifteen prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain, and have appeared on seventy-five Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He's written for the New York Times, Atlantic, Esquire, Outside, Sunset, Men's Journal, McSweeney's, and many other publications, and he has been a Guggenheim, Stegner, and NEA fellow.